The Life of Matt Campos

I run the IT department for a small e-commerce company, most of our servers are co-located offsite but we do have a small server room with two NAS file servers a web server and a domain server for local internal use. Well I was running into network issues at night when no one is in the office, I was suspecting something was wrong with one of our servers or even our Cisco router. I did many hours of troubleshooting, changing out parts, you name it I tried it. Then I got to thinking about when this was happening, late at night, I suspected the building admin were turning off the air conditioning at night. After talking to them they said they were not, so I needed proof. I found a nice little monitoring tool, Temperature@lert USB Temperature Monitor and plugged it in. And sure enough this awesome little tool gave me the proof to go back and tell them what was going on. Sure enough, later that day I got a call saying the indeed their controls were set wrong and it has been corrected. This little tool is a life saver!

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